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From: "Marg Eaton" <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] American Red Cross Nan Clark Notes
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:44:03 -0500
References: <20041115212906.93330.qmail@web61301.mail.yahoo.com>


Thanks dear, It is interesting, that was after the end of the war, aand
things were a little different by that time, we had no help at all with
our babies, [children] other than each other, and most of us had never been
on an ocean liner before either, we had red cross workers on the train after
we left Halifax, they wer great, as every time we came to a railway crossing
the train tooted and it woke up every baby, you got them to sleep again and
it would happen again., I was an adventure, aaand we were all young , we
came on the Franconia, Marg
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From: Michele <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 4:29 PM
Subject: [WarBrides] American Red Cross Nan Clark Notes


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> Hi,
>
> I received this email and thought you all would enjoy reading it. It's
deals with war brides on the Queen Mary.
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> Michele:
>
> Nan Clark, was my cousin, who died three years ago in her home in
Fairmont, WV. During the latter war years, she was with the American Red
Cross in the Pacific, specifically, New Caledonia and Saipan.
>
> In 1946, she crossed the Atlantic with six thousand brides and half that
number of babies as a Red Cross worker assigned to the Queen Mary. She was
part of six trips during 1946.
>
> She said that the average Queen Mary trip carried 450 babies under 18
months, a large group of three years olds and a handful of older children.
The ship had five nurseries: one for sleeping babies, two for babies awake,
one on deck and a unit for older children.
>
> Babies were identified by large baggage tags fastened at the neck where
babies could not eat, rip or lose them.
>
> Mothers of the babies had an average age of 20 years and hardly one had
been on an ocean liner before. The mothers spent their spare time cramming
up on customs in the US and the Red Cross girls answered many questions.
>
> The Red Cross staff of ten aboard ship included a senior supervisor
trained in social services. When the american game "bingo" was introduced,
the british brides discovered it was a game they played all of their lives
called "Housie."
>
> The article from which I have quoted passages was from the Worchester
Sunday Telegram of June 30, 1946, in Massachusetts, I believe.
>
> I hope this helps. If anyone remembers my cousin Nan, I would be most
appreciated to hear from them.
>
> Regards,
> Frank Clark,
> Fairmont, WV 26554
>
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> Michele, (Belgium War Baby - USS Brazil)
> American War Bride Experience
> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/9710/WarBrides
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